Jeopardy

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Vocabulary
Geography
Rulers
Religion
Culture
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Final Jeopardy
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100 Question from H1
This was an ancient region in the Nile River
Valley, on the site of present-day southern Egypt
and northern Sudan
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100 Answer from H1
What was Nubia?
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200 Question from H1
This was a large waterfall any strong flood or
rush of water.
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200 Answer from H1
What is a cataract?
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300 Question from H1
This is a plain at the mouth of a river formed
when sediment is deposited by flowing water.
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300 Answer from H1
What is a delta?
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400 Question from H1
This was the title of ancient Egyptian kings.
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400 Answer from H1
What is pharaoh?
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500 Question from H1
This is a series of rulers from the same family
or ethnic group.
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500 Answer from H1
What is dynasty?
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100 Question from H2
This is the river that flows through Egypt.
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100 Answer from H2
What is the Nile River?
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200 Question from H2
The sources of the Nile River are the Blue Nile
and the White Nile while the mouth is in the sea.
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200 Answer from H2
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
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300 Question from H2
This type of landform surrounds Egypt.
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300 Answer from H2
What is a desert?
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400 Question from H2
This is a fine soil found on river bottoms that
was brought to Egypt by the Nile River each
spring.
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400 Answer from H2
What is silt?
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500 Question from H2
The Nile River flowed in this direction.
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500 Answer from H2
What is north?
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100 Question from H3
This was the title of the ruler of ancient Egypt.
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100 Answer from H3
What was pharaoh?
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200 Question from H3
According to legend, Egypts first dynasty
began when this king unified upper and lower
Egypt.
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200 Answer from H3
Who was Menes?
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300 Question from H3
Ancient Egyptians believed the pharaoh was the
earthly form of this god who was the falcon god.
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300 Answer from H3
Who was Horus?
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400 Question from H3
The pharaoh had this kind of power over the
Egyptian people.
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400 Answer from H3
What was absolute power?
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500 Question from H3
The rule of this female pharaoh, the stepmother
of Thutmose III, was good for Egypt because she
created peace and economic success in Egypt.
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500 Answer from H3
Who was Hatshepsut?
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100 Question from H4
This was the chief god of ancient Egypt.
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100 Answer from H4
Who was Amon-Re?
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200 Question from H4
This powerful god was the god of the living and
the dead.
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200 Answer from H4
Who was Osiris?
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300 Question from H4
This goddess was worshipped as the great mother
who protected her children.
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300 Answer from H4
Who was Isis?
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400 Question from H4
When pharaohs died, their bodies were
prepared for burial in this way.
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400 Answer from H4
They were mummified
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500 Question from H4
The dead were buried with their possessions
because the Egyptians believed the bodies needed
them to survive here.
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500 Answer from H4
What was the afterlife?
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100 Question from H5
The largest social class in ancient Egypt was
this group of people who performed all types of
labor.
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100 Answer from H5
What were the peasants?
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200 Question from H5
This small class of people were prisoners
captured in war.
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200 Answer from H5
Who were slaves?
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300 Question from H5
This group of people could own land, run
businesses, and enter into legal contracts. They
were considered models of Isis.
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300 Answer from H5
Who were women?
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400 Question from H5
These picturelike symbols began to be used
because the Egyptians needed a way to keep track
of the empires growing wealth.
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400 Answer from H5
What are hieorglyphs?
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500 Question from H5
Because they wanted to know when the waters of
the Nile would flood, the Egyptians figured out
the length of this.
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500 Answer from H5
What is a year?
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Final Jeopardy
Which three Nubian cultures were located south of
Egypt?
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Final Jeopardy Answer
What were Kerma, Napata, and Meroë?